Month: October 2012

Local News – Radioactive Tuna? It’s the Great Pumpkin Giveaway! Check the Back! Stream Team Raising Funds.

October 25, 2012 Trace Radiation Levels Detected in Tuna “Minute traces” of radiation from the March 2011 Fukushima reactor disaster have been showing up in albacore tuna caught off the west coast of the United States.  Oregon State Graduate Researcher Delvan Neville says the radiation levels are “far below” anything […]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute/262 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press CATHLAMET, Wash. (AP) — An autopsy is scheduled today on the body of Wahkiakum (Wah-KIA-kum) County Sheriff Jon Dearmore, who fatally shot himself yesterday. The sheriff of neighboring Cowlitz County, Mark Nelson, is investigating. He says Dearmore may […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/253 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Two public employee unions and a top Democratic donor are pumping money into an advertising campaign targeting Republicans running for labor commissioner and secretary of state. The advertisements label secretary of state candidate Knute […]

NW Sports from the AP

Date: 10/25/2012 05:29 AM NW–SportsMinute/405 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press   SEATTLE (AP) – Sammy Ochoa and Steve Zakuani scored first-half goals and the Seattle Sounders beat Honduras’ Marathon 3-1 last night to finish 4-0 in group play in the CONCACAF […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 10/25/2012 03:59 AM OR–1st NewsMinute/375 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police arrested a man accused of threatening construction workers with an assault rifle. Police spokesman Lt. Robert King says the man drove away when officers surrounded his truck […]

Local News – Siuslaw Interpretive Center; Fire Destroys Storage Building; Gas $3.91; Domestic Violence

October 24, 2012 Bridge Interpretive Site Closing In on Breaking Ground Planning for the Siuslaw River Interpretive Project goes back more than a decade, but it appears that by next spring the quarter-acre site overlooking the Siuslaw River and the Highway 101 Bridge will become a reality says Florence City […]